Faces of Family Business: Cypress Roofing

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(From left) Samantha Michel, Caprice Cline and Alex Carmouche

HISTORY

Cypress Roofing was founded in July 2019 by Caprice Cline and her children, Joshua, Samantha and Alexandra. Josh has since found love and moved to Florida, so the company is now a 100% woman-owned business. “We started this business to help people,” says Caprice. “We know it sounds cliché, but this has been our motivation day in and day out. We are a company that values faith, family, honesty and integrity—not just the bottom line.”

WHAT VALUES OR PRINCIPLES GUIDE YOUR BUSINESS?

We believe the most important thing we can do as humans is to give back to others and our community. We are involved in our church and local community thru the Chamber and Rotary. One important way we help our customers is through the process of working with insurance companies. We also specialize in working with Realtors and management companies in making the repair and replacement process easy.

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK WITH FAMILY?

According to Caprice, “It’s great 99% of the time, but the other 1%, the Mom in me wants to come out! Seriously, we are so blessed to have the privilege to work beside family every day. And we have about 10 other family members who work with us, so we have family all around us. So much fun!”

HOW HAS YOUR BUSINESS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS?

We have grown from our original four to a company of almost 25 employees. We now have our commercial license and are delving straight ahead into this part of the business. We have gone from replacing one to two roofs a week to 8-12. God has richly blessed us. Our first year, we produced a little over $600,000 and last year did $11.5 million.

WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON FOR YOUR COMPANY?

We just completed the purchase of property to begin the process of building our Cypress Headquarters in Gonzales in Ascension Parish. We are from the area and want to continue to invest in our community. We have partnered with an expert in every facet of commercial roofing and are super excited about this new division.

1802 S. SONNY AVE., GONZALES, LA 70737 • 225.450.5507 • CYPRESSROOFING.COM

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